Teaching Law re-imagines law school teaching and scholarship by going beyond crises now besetting the legal academy and examining deeper and longer-lasting challenges. The book argues that the legal academy has long neglected the need to focus teaching and scholarship on the ideals of justice that law fitfully serves, the political origins of law, and the development of a respectful but critical relationship with the legal profession. It suggests reforms to improve the quality of legal education and responds to concerns that law schools eschew the study of justice, rendering students amoralist; that law schools slight the political sources of law, particularly in legislative action; and that law schools have ignored the profession entirely. These areas of neglect have impoverished legal teaching and scholarship as the academy is refashioned in response to current financial exigencies, and addressing them is long overdue.

Die Bereitstellung effizienter EDV-Systeme ist fur viele Grossunternehmen wie z.B. Automobilhersteller, Banken und Versicherungen zu einem wichtigen Erfolgsfaktor geworden. Informatik-Management umfasst alle in diesem Zusammenhang notwendigen operativen Aufgabengebiete wie Entwicklung und Wartung, Schulung und Beratung, Planung, Kontrolle und Stabsaufgaben sowie Betrieb von EDV-Systemen. Schwerpunkt des Buches ist die Darstellung der Management-Aspekte dieser Aufgabengebiete, gegliedert in Aufgaben und Ziele, Erfolgsfaktoren, Losungswege und deren Konstruktionsprinzipien, Aufbauorganisation und Methoden fur wirksames Controlling einschliesslich Kennzahlen. Als Randergebnisse werden Informatik-spezifische Arbeitsplatze und deren Anforderungsprofile dargestellt sowie offene Fragen fur die Wissenschaft und fur Hersteller von Informatik-Produkten aufgezeigt."

Teaching Law re-imagines law school teaching and scholarship by going beyond crises now besetting the legal academy and examining deeper and longer-lasting challenges. The book argues that the legal academy has long neglected the need to focus teaching and scholarship on the ideals of justice that law fitfully serves, the political origins of law, and the development of a respectful but critical relationship with the legal profession. It suggests reforms to improve the quality of legal education and responds to concerns that law schools eschew the study of justice, rendering students amoralist; that law schools slight the political sources of law, particularly in legislative action; and that law schools have ignored the profession entirely. These areas of neglect have impoverished legal teaching and scholarship as the academy is refashioned in response to current financial exigencies, and addressing them is long overdue.

Das Sozialversicherungsrecht ist durch eine beispiellose Vielzahl und Vielfalt untergesetzlicher Regelwerke gepragt. Die Untersuchung bietet eine weit ausgreifende Bestandsaufnahme und erstmals eine systematische Ordnung der untergesetzlichen Rechtsquellen des Rechts der gesetzlichen Kranken-, Renten- und Unfallversicherung, der sozialen Pflegeversicherung sowie der Arbeitslosenversicherung und Arbeitsfoerderung. Ausgehend von den Prinzipien der Demokratie und der Autonomie entwickelt der Verfasser zudem ein Konzept der Legitimation, das eine kritische UEberprufung der ermittelten normativen Phanomene ermoeglicht. Bei dieser UEberprufung erweisen sich insbesondere Regelungsmechanismen der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung als verfassungsrechtlich inakzeptabel. Die Kritik mundet in rechtspolitische Anregungen zur Loesung der diagnostizierten Legitimationsprobleme.

Thinking of becoming a lawyer? Attending law school in Canada? Finally-it's here-the guidebook you've been waiting for. Every year, an estimated 10,000-15,000 people apply to 16 Canadian law schools, vying for just over 2000 coveted spots. The competition is even fiercer when applying for a job as an articling student. Adam Letourneau, B.Sc., B.A., LL.B., a graduate of the University of Alberta Faculty of Law, and former Editor-in-Chief of the Alberta Law Review, reveals many insider tips on how to gain admittance to law school, how to cope and succeed in law school, and most importantly, how to land a coveted job post-graduation. Drawing upon personal experience and the experiences of numerous other Canadian law students, Letourneau shares general insights on the LSAT, applying for law school, study strategies, summer jobs, the articling application process and much more, along with plenty of context-specific information for the Canadian law student. Because the Canadian law school experience is unique, this book is the only full source of relevant information available to prospective and current Canadian law students. Letourneau will save you hours of research, hours of study and tons of stress. Recommended to all students interested in law school, all students applying to law school and to students in all three years of law school. For more information on this book, and for a variety of Canadian law school resources, go to www.canadalawstudent.ca.

In this groundbreaking book, Randall Kiser presents a multi-disciplinary, practice-based introduction to the major soft skills for lawyers: self-awareness, self-development, social proficiency, wisdom, leadership, and professionalism. The work serves as both a map and a vehicle for developing the skills essential to self-knowledge and fulfillment, organizational respect and accomplishment, client satisfaction and appreciation, and professional improvement and distinction. It identifies the most important soft skills for attorneys, describes and applies hundreds of studies regarding psychology, law, and soft skills, and provides concrete steps and methods to improve soft skills. The book should be read by law students, attorneys, and anyone else interested in how lawyers should practice law.

Although the most characteristic of legal skills, representing clients in courts and tribunals is a skill which until recently was not taught. It was picked up by watching others and trying out one's own fears with little, if any, feedback. This book aims to change all that. There are no war stories and no solecisms. The work of advocacy is clearly divided into its constituent parts and each elements is covered in terms of both approach and content. The book is both a reading book and a course book and examples and exercises are given throughout. The approach is to build upon the new advocate's existing skills rather than mimicking an imagined ideal. It is also intended to be fun to read.

It has long been recognized that court trials in the common law system, both criminal and civil, operate around pairs of competing narratives told by opposing advocates. In recent years, however, it has increasingly been argued that narrative flows in many directions and through every form of legal theory and practice. Interest in the part played by metaphor in the law, including metaphors for the law, and for many standard concepts in legal practice, has also been strong, though research under the metaphor banner has been much more fragmentary. In this book, for the first time, a distinguished group of legal scholars, collaborating with specialists from cognitive theory, journalism, rhetoric, social psychology, criminology, and legal activism, explore how narrative and metaphor are both vital to the legal process. Together, they examine topics including concepts of law, legal persuasion, human rights law, gender in the law, innovations in legal thinking, legal activism, creative work around the law, and public debate around crime and punishment.

This collection of essays is a unique contribution to understanding the issues confronting law schools in Central and Eastern Europe and countries of the former Soviet Union as they seek to ensure that their programs meet the needs of 21st century lawyers. The book is unusual in two ways. First, most of the authors are faculty members at universities in the region. Despite a plethora of initiatives to reform legal education in Central and Eastern Europe and countries of the former Soviet Union, there has been little literature on the topic coming from the region itself. Second, the essays address structural issues as well as pedagogical ones (e.g., the disincentives for academics to invest time in developing new teaching methodologies and the problems posed by rigid government standards for higher education). It is particularly useful to have these essays collected in one book, so that readers can see both problems and some suggested solutions in a cross-cultural context.

Lawyers know that client counseling can be the most challenging part of legal practice. Clients question and often resist the complexities and uncertainties inherent in law and legal process. Honest advice from the lawyer can make a client doubt his or her allegiance and zeal. Client backlash may be directed at the lawyer who communicates bad news. Thus, the lawyer may feel torn between the obligation to clearly inform a client about weaknesses in legal positions and fear of damaging the client relationship. Too often, the lawyer struggles to counsel a particularly difficult client, but to no avail.
Client Science is written to provide insight and advice to lawyers on how to more effectively communicate with their clients with regard to legal realities and difficult decisions. It will help lawyers with the always-difficult task of delivering "bad news," which will result in better-informed and thus more satisfied clients. The book explains applicable social science research and insights and translates them into plain language relevant to legal practice and client counseling. Marjorie Corman Aaron offers specific suggestions related to a lawyer's ordering, timing, phrasing, and type of explanation, as well as style adjustments for the lawyer's voice, gesture, and body position, all to impact client counseling and to improve the lawyer-client relationship.

Die ewige Frage des Verhaltnisses von Sein und Sollen, von Norm und Wirklichkeit bei der Rechtsinhaltsbetrachtung, wird von einem Kreis von Freunden und Schulern Gunther Winklers anhand ausgewahlter Fragen des Verfassungsrechts und des Wirtschaftsrechts exemplarisch vertieft. Im Rahmen der verfassungsrechtlichen Untersuchung stehen naturgemass Grundrechtsfragen im Vordergrund; die neuere Judikatur des Verfassungsgerichtshofes gibt sowohl Anlass zu prazisierenden als auch zu kritischen UEberlegungen. Im Rahmen der wirtschaftsrechtlichen Untersuchungen drangt sich das Anschauungsmaterial geradezu auf, es gibt in gleicher Weise zu grundsatzlichen Abhandlungen und zur Eroerterung spezieller Themen - vom Gewerberecht uber das Recht der Wirtschaftstreuhander bis zum Apothekenrecht - Anlass. Eine Abhandlung uber burgerfreundliche Verwaltungsfuhrung und eine spieltheoretische Betrachtung von Rechtssetzung und Rechtsvollzug runden den Band ab.

There is no book of political strategy more canonical than Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince, but few ethicists would advise policymakers to treat it as a bible. The lofty ideals of the law, especially, seem distant from the values that the word "Machiavellian" connotes, and judges are supposed to work above the realm of politics. In The Judge, however, Ronald Collins and David Skover argue that Machiavelli can indeed speak to judges, and model their book after The Prince. As it turns out, the number of people who think that judges in the U.S. are apolitical has been shrinking for decades. Both liberals and conservatives routinely criticize their ideological opponents on the bench for acting politically. Some authorities even posit the impossibility of apolitical judges, and indeed, in many states, judicial elections are partisan. Others advocate appointing judges who are committed to being dispassionate referees adhering to the letter of the law. However, most legal experts, regardless of their leanings, seem to agree that despite widespread popular support for the ideal of the apolitical judge, this ideal is mere fantasy. This debate about judges and politics has been a perennial in American history, but it intensified in the 1980s, when the Reagan administration sought to place originalists in the Supreme Court. It has not let up since. Ronald Collins and David Skover argue that the debate has become both stale and circular, and instead tackle the issue in a boldly imaginative way. In The Judge, they ask us to assume that judges are political, and that they need advice on how to be effective political actors. Their twenty-six chapters track the structure of The Prince, and each provides pointers to judges on how to cleverly and subtly advance their political goals. In this Machiavellian vision, law is inseparable from realpolitik. However, the authors' point isn't to advocate for this coldly realistic vision of judging. There ultimate goal is identify both legal realists and originalists as what they are: explicitly political (though on opposite ends of the ideological spectrum). Taking its cues from Machiavelli, The Judge describes what judges actually do, not what they ought to do.

Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft sind Partner der Innovation. Niemand kann sich heute der Einsicht verschlieBen, daB die Zusammenarbeit zwischen Wissenschaft und Wirt- schaft zunehmend an Bedeutung gewinnen muB und daB Beriihrungsangste, wie sie zeitweilig das Verhaltnis beider Bereiche beeintrachtigten, von der Tagesordnung ab- gesetzt sind. Der Bedarf nach intensivem Wissenschaftstransfer wachst standig. Die Griinde da- fUr liegen vor allem in der immer starkeren Ausdifferenzierung von Produkten und Dienstleistungen, in der Produktions- und Vertriebstechnik, den zunehmenden okolo- gischen Anforderungen und - dadurch bedingt - in den immer komplizierter werden- den Rahmenbedingungen fUr die Gewinnung neuer Erkenntnisse und deren Verwer- tung. Obwohl eine Hille von Veroffentlichungen zum Thema vorliegt, fehlte es bisher an einer systematischen Abhandlung in Form eines Kompendiums, das nicht nur die Pro- blematik umfassend darstellt, sondern praktische Entscheidungshilfen und Handrei- chung en liefert. Diese Lticke will das vorliegende "Handbuch des Wissenschaftstransfers" schlie- Ben. Dem Herausgeber, Dr. Hermann Josef Schuster, der tiber 20 Jahre lang in leiten- den Positionen Erfahrungen mit der Zusammenarbeit zwischen Wirtschaft und Wis- senschaft sammeln konnte, gelang es, fUr dieses wichtige Unternehmen mehr als 50 namhafte Experten aus Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft und Verwaltung zu gewinnen. So ent- stand ein umfassendes Werk, das die Bedingungen, Moglichkeiten und Grenzen fUr eine fruchtbare Zusammenarbeit zwischen Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft aufzeigt.

International law is usually communicated in more than one language and reflects common norms that lawyers and adjudicators across national legal cultures agree on and develop together. As a result, the negotiation of the wording and meaning of international legislative texts is an integral part of legal interpretation in international law. This book sheds light on that essential interpretation process. Language and Legal Interpretation in International Law treats the subject from the perspective of recent legal and linguistic theories of meaning. Anne Lise Kjaer and Joanna Lam bring together internationally renowned experts to provide strong theoretical and practical foundations for the study of legal interpretation in such fields as human rights law, international trade, investment and commercial law, EU law, and international criminal law. The volume explains how the positivist tradition-in which interpretation is understood as an automatic process by which judges simply apply the text of legislative instruments to specific fact situations-cannot be upheld in an era of pragmatic and cognitive meaning theories. Those theories instead focus on the context of interpretation and on the interpreter as a co-producer of meaning. Through a collection of thoroughly researched and timely essays, this book explores the linguistically and culturally diversified world of meaning-making in international law.

Die Juristenausbildung verandert sich. Nicht mehr nur juristisches Fachwissen und Klausurtechnik sind examensrelevant, sondern zu den bekannten Anforderungen kommt in vielen Landern der Nachweis so genannter "Schlusselqualifikationen" in der mundlichen Pflichtfachprufung hinzu. Auf diese neuen Examensanforderungen bereitet das vorliegende Werk in optimaler Weise vor. Das Buch lehrt und vermittelt sowohl den notigen theoretischen Hintergrund von Schlusselqualifikationen und die erforderlichen Kenntnisse auf den Feldern der Rhetorik, der Vortragskunst, der Gesprachsfuhrung und der Selbstorganisation als auch die examensrelevanten praktischen Fertigkeiten zur Prasentation eines Vortrags. Anhand examenstypischer "Schlusselqualifikationsaufgaben" erlernen die Studierenden die wesentlichen "Schlusselqualifikationstechniken." Auf diese Weise werden sie bestmoglich in die Lage versetzt, im mundlichen Examen ihre Befahigung auf dem Gebiet der Schlusselqualifikationen mit Erfolg nachzuweisen."

Many legal writing texts emphasize how one writes; this book is unique because it also focuses on why one writes. Every chapter challenges the reader to write to achieve a strategic objective. Each assignment has been carefully considered by the authors, and fully vetted to simulate the decision-making involved in the preparation of important legal writing, whether in a general counsel's office, a law office, a government attorney's office, or a judge's chambers. Simply put, the authors' approach is that effective legal writing does not exist in a vacuum. This book provides practical assignments that teach the student that the best legal writing is not an end in itself, but a means to a larger strategic objective.

This extensively revised second edition is a rigorous introduction to the construction and criticism of arguments about questions of fact, and to the marshalling and evaluation of evidence at all stages of litigation. It covers the principles underlying the logic of proof; the uses and dangers of story-telling; standards for decision and the relationship between probabilities and proof; the chart method and other methods of analyzing and ordering evidence in fact-investigation, in preparing for trial, and in connection with other important decisions in legal processes and in criminal investigation and intelligence analysis. Most of the chapters in this new edition have been rewritten; the treatment of fact investigation, probabilities and narrative has been extended; and new examples and exercises have been added. Designed as a flexible tool for undergraduate and postgraduate courses on evidence and proof, students, practitioners and teachers alike will find this book challenging but rewarding.

Mit einem hohen Pro-Kopf-Verbrauch von uber 101 Alkohol pro Jahr zahlt Deutschland immer noch zu den Spitzenreitern bei den Landern mit dem meisten Alkoholkonsum, auch wenn hier seit den 90er Jahren eine kontinu ierliche Abnahme zu verzeichnen ist. Die negativen Auswirkungen des uberhohten Konsums, besonders des langfristigen und chronischen Ge brauchs, zeichnen sich in allen fur die Personlichkeit wichtigen Bereichen ab: Korperliche, soziale und psychologische Beeintrachtigungen sind die Fol ge. Die wesentlichen alkoholinduzierten Storungen und Folgeerkrankungen wurden anhand der in den modernen Diagnosesystemen, DSM-IV und vor allem ICD-lO, enthaltenen deskriptiven diagnostischen Kriterien und ihrer Symptomatik vorgestellt und jeweils differentialdiagnostisch abgegrenzt. Unter den akuten Alkoholfolgestorungen ist die Intoxikation zu nennen, der besonders im Falle eines abnormen bzw. besonders erheblichen Rausch zustandes forensische Bedeutung zukommt. Bei den chronischen Storungen unterscheidet man den schadlichen Gebrauch von Alkohol und die Alkohol abhangigkeit. Die Abhangigkeit ist vor allem durch physische und psy chische Abhangigkeit sowie Toleranzentwicklung und Entzugssymptomatik gekennzeichnet. Chronischer Alkoholkonsum kann ferner zu neuropsychi atrischen Folgeerkrankungen fuhren wie alkoholinduzierten Psychosen, ko gnitiven Storungen (Wernicke-Korsakow-Syndrom, Demenz) und weiteren Personlichkeits- oder Verhaltensstorungen. Die Beurteilung der Schuldfahigkeit 4 bei akuter Alkoholintoxikation und Alkoholabhangigkeit KLAUS FOERSTER und MARTIN LEONHARDT 4. 1 Allgemeine und kriminologische Aspekte . 55 4. 2 Einschatzung der Alkoholeffekte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 4. 3 Bedeutung des Blutalkoholgehaltes . 57 4. 4 Alkoholabhangigkeit? . 59 4. 5 Terminologische Probleme . 59 4. 6 Einschatzung der Taterpersonlichkeit . 61 4. 7 Praktisches Vorgehen bei der Schuldfahigkeitsbeurteilung . 62 4. 8 Einschatzung einer Erinnerungslucke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 4. 9 Beurteilung bei Alkoholabhangigkeit ."

Der Band umfasst in seinem ersten Teil Beitrage zu den historischen, philosophischen und religiosen Grundlagen der Tierethik. Im zweiten Teil des Bandes wird in verschiedenen Einzeldarstellungen auf die praktischen Probleme der Tierethik eingegangen, und zwar insbesondere auf die Schwierigkeiten, die sich bei der Tierhaltung, den Tiertransporten, den Tierversuchen und der Realisierung eines angemessenen Tierschutzes ergeben. Die Beitrage zu dem interdisziplinar konzipierten Band sind verfasst von Philosophen, Historikern, Theologen, Juristen, Tiermedizinern, Naturwissenschaftlern, Verwaltungsexperten und Vertretern von Tierschutzorganisationen."

As a result of globalization, cross-border transactions and litigation, and multilingual legislation, outsourcing legal translation has become common practice. Unfortunately, over-reliance on such outsourcing has given rise to significant dangers, including information asymmetry, goal divergence, and risk. Legal Translation Outsourced provides the only current reference on commercial legal translation performed outside institutions. Juliette Scott casts a critical eye on the practice as it now stands, offering an analysis of key risks and constraints. Her work is informed by empirical data of the legal translation outsourcing markets of 41 countries. Scott proposes original theoretical models aimed both at training legal translators and informing all stakeholders, including principals and agents. These include models of legal translation performance; a classification of constraints on legal translation applying upstream, during and downstream of translation work; and a description of the complex chain of supply. Working to improve the enterprise itself, Scott shows how implementing a comprehensive legal translation brief-a sorely needed template-can significantly benefit clients by increasing the fitness of translated texts. Further, she opens a number of avenues for future research with an eye to translator empowerment and professionalization.